Anthericum. | LILIACEH (Baker). 395 
hairy all over both surfaces ; peduncle slender, pubescent, 3-1 ft. 
long; racemes 1-3, very lax, the end one finally 6-9 in. long; 
bracts minute, deltoid-cuspidate; pedicels solitary, ascending or 
cernuous, the lower 4-3 in. long; perianth glabrous, 4 in. long; 
segments white, with a distinct brown keel; stamens much shorter 
than the perianth ; filaments murieated ; capsule globose, glabrous, 
3-; in. diam. Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 322; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 
140 ; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 460. Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xv.313, Trachyandra hirsuta and T. corymbosa, Kunth, Enum. 
iv. 577. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Thunberg! Oldenburg ! 
Coast Rxeion: Malmesbury Div.; near Groene Kloof, under 1000 ft., 
Drége, 1494! Cape Div. ; rocky places, Kamps Bay, Pappe / clayey soil near 
Wynberg, Zeyher, 4657! Devils Mountain, 700 ft., Bolus, 3794! Riversdale 
Div.; near Zoetmelks River, Burchell, 6654! 6797! Bathurst Div.; near 
Theopolis, Burchell, 4118! (a form with prostrate viviparous flowering stems). 
51. A. pilosum (Baker) ; leaves 5-6 to a stem, erect, linear, very 
acutely keeled, above a foot long, 3-3 in. broad, clothed with fine, 
soft, spreading hairs; peduncle 1} ft. long, hairy like the leaves ; 
panicle of 6-8 lax racemes; pedicels ascending, articulated at the 
apex, the lower j—4 in. long; bracts minute, ovate; perianth 4 in. 
long; segments thin, oblanceolate, white, with a brown keel; 
stamens rather shorter than the perianth; anthers small, oblong; 
capsule small, globose. 
Eastern Reeron: Griqualand East; near Clydesdale, 2700 ft., Tyson, 2114! 
MacOzwvan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 1207! 
52. A. muricatum (Linn. fil. Suppl. 202); root-fibres very 
numerous, slender, cylindrical; outer rudimentary leaves large, 
ovate, whitish, membranous ; root-leaves linear-ensiform, 1-1} ft. 
long, 3 in. broad, firm in texture, scabrous, closely ribbed ; peduncle 
stout, hispid, 1-1} ft. long; racemes numerous, Jax, the central ones 
6-8 in. long; bracts deltoid-cuspidate, the lower {-j in. long; 
pedicels solitary, ascending, }-} in. long; perianth glabrous, 4 in. 
long; segments oblanceolate, white, with a distinct brown keel ; 
stamens much shorter than the perianth; filaments muricated ; 
capsule subglobose, glabrous. Thunh Prodr. 63; Fl. Cap. edit. 
Schult. 322; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 145; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. 
Veg. vii. 459. Arthropodium muricatum, Spreng. Syst. ii. 87. 
Trachyandra muricata, Kunth, Enum. iv. 576. 
: hi d stony places below Table Mountain, on Devils 
Wot ara Loe ee oe Green Point, Thunberg ! Ecklon and 
Zeyher ! 
53. A. Gerrardi (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1872, 137); root-fibres 
slender, wiry ; old leaves breaking up into a mass of bristles ; root- 
leaves 6-10, linear, hispid, rarely glabrous, }—1 ft. long, { in. broad, 
bright green, moderately firm in texture, triquetrous on the back, 
